dorset boy's latest activity

Ventured forth at lunchtime to take advantage of semi-cloudy, dry and almost-warm conditions, with the added bonus of a lack of wind...

Just shy of 25 miles , the longest the emotional distort monkeys have ever done and possibly my longest since surgery . A tad too warm...

Decided to do some fairly extreme climbing today so did down and up four of the steepest, roughest, techiest tracks going down the north...

wow, almost hit that! :) middle of the plain called 'Alföld' in Hungary, at the river 'Tisza'. not far from the 'Hortobágy' and the...

I've been volunteering at the Boomtown music festival over the last four days, fixing up stuff that the festivalgoers have broken...

Beautiful weather: hot and sunny, but with a brisk, cooling breeze. A very enjoyable, forty mile, round trip to Sandwich Bay on the road...

visited Mom on the weekend, sad to see her ageing. although, made a family trip of it, brought bikes with us. the daughter was riding on...

("Today's Ride" is days old because I was off in the wild) Dawn patrol with RockRat. Slow turtles, slow geese, slow bike. Spotted a...

By way of contrast to all those sunny northern hemisphere rides, here we're back to wind, rain and cold, but as today's precipitation...

Tonight's POETS CC ride. Everything was beautiful, including the excruciating climbs (the last one off road, averaging at 16.5%). The...

Just 20 km along the river to the public pool next town and back. Needed the rear wheel for my touring bike, which I finally rebuilt, so...

Yesterday once more. It's becoming a semi-regular thing, but I won't get too carried away as it's only been 3 times in as many weeks. I...

A week of no riding due to being on holiday made the first ride back burn my legs a bit! Just under 40 miles of bridleways, tracks and a...

Finally finally finally, a sunny, near-windless day! To be honest, yesterday was also beautiful but I was on an urgent deadline; today...

Pootle to Wasdale Head . The emotional support monkeys baulked at going further up . They wanted to get their feet wet , until they got...